Virtual Alumni Connections: Lumen Art Projects Founder Carla Rapoport

Carla is an arts entrepreneur whose goal is to create more opportunities for artists creating with today’s tech tools.

She founded the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology in 2012, which celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. In 2018, she founded the not-for-profit Lumen Art Projects (https://lumenprize.com/), to manage both the prize and a new business providing exhibitions, commissions, and events engaged with art and technology globally.

Before that, she worked as a financial journalist for the Financial Times, Fortune Magazine, and The Economist Group located in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and London.

An established writer, speaker, and consultant on art and technology, she has spoken at numerous panels, conferences, and events around the world.